It won’t be long now before a P-51 called “Congress and the judiciary” swoops in and bombs REA with some “rules for thee” bullshit. That will complete the third panel of this meme.
Anti-circumvention laws already exist and carry penalties including prison, it only takes one judge to create case law that this kind of reverse engineering is circumvention and then it’ll disappear from the commercial Internet.
The safest way to go is to create the software from scratch, using reversed engineered proprietary software to make a different, but very similar, product is a legal minefield and largely unnecessary given that the same AI time that goes into reverse engineering the project could be directed towards making a clean room replacement which could completely avoid those legal issues while still replacing the product with a FOSS product.
Who did this meme? Didn’t they watch the movie?
It won’t be long now before a P-51 called “Congress and the judiciary” swoops in and bombs REA with some “rules for thee” bullshit. That will complete the third panel of this meme.
Anti-circumvention laws already exist and carry penalties including prison, it only takes one judge to create case law that this kind of reverse engineering is circumvention and then it’ll disappear from the commercial Internet.
The safest way to go is to create the software from scratch, using reversed engineered proprietary software to make a different, but very similar, product is a legal minefield and largely unnecessary given that the same AI time that goes into reverse engineering the project could be directed towards making a clean room replacement which could completely avoid those legal issues while still replacing the product with a FOSS product.
Yea, we need a Panel 3 with the
Rocket Launcher Guyplane as an actually human foss developer.Am I misremembering? I thought the tank gets blown up by a plane.
Yeah, plane.
that might be. It has been a while since I have watched it. i do remember it blowing Up.
What movie is this?
Saving Ryan’s Privates
https://youtu.be/lYSOmYyNHpU?t=32s
(And the rest of his body as well)
Saving private Ryan.